The 808 State is an unofficial name for the state of Hawaii (the phone area code of Hawaii is 808). Permission won't be necessary since Hawaii has been around for just a bit longer than our 808 State Moving this to off-topic.

there was once an 808state football team with a sponsered kit in Ancoats MCR..we bought the kit but werent in the team.
We also sponsered a dragster (one drunken night in the hacienda) must get photo of that?
The Hawaii thing is odd as no other state is named after an area code?
really its the 50th state
There were quite a few 808state bumper stickers in hawaii when i went last year. i think they must have started using it after us.. We certainly did nt get it from them..may be its just coincidence..

Not so long ago there was a Nike t-shirt on Ebay that simply read 808 state on the front and had the Nike swoosh underneath, is this the same vollyball shirt? I bid £40 on it and got outbid overnight as I was zonking.